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Mad Men Madness at the Emmys

POSTED: Thursday, September 25, 2008, 4:46 PM

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If you grew up punk in the 1990s, it is a very, very strange experience to find yourself enthralled by something that also happens enthrall everyone else in the country. Not because you think you are smarter, but simply because your taste tends to run toward stuff that, for whatever reason, seems boring, irrelevant or downright offensive to most people.

As I said when I started writing these recaps for Season 2 of AMC's drama series Mad Men, either TV is getting smarter or I am getting dumber. I think I'm pretty sure I know the answer now: TV is getting smarter. Mad Men freaking regulated all over the Emmys on Sunday night, taking Best Drama, Best Drama Writing and a bunch of performance nominations. It was also — I think this is of some historical importance — the first cable drama to claim that Best Drama award. It's odd this didn't happen earlier, and it's also odd that when it finally did, it didn't go to an HBO show. Oh well, no pity for them: They had first dibs on Mad Men and turned it down. Dummies!

Having said all that, I do think it's lame that The Wire didn't take away anything serious. How quickly we forget.

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